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Two Minutes to a Peaceful Inbox - Clutter Challenge Day 4 Without Overwhelm · Overwhelmed Working Woman: Boost Productivity, Master Time Management, Overcome Overwhelm & Stop People Pleasing

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Hello, you are listening to Overwhelmed Working Woman with me, michelle Gothier, your host.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Today is another special episode because we are doing clutter week or declutter week.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: I suppose we're not encouraging clutter.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Today's focus is going to be digital clutter.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Now, if you're not already following along with this challenge, go to the link in the show notes and get on my email list and you will get a daily email that lays out what the challenge for the day is.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Every time you reply to that email with your response for that particular challenge, you get entered into a drawing to win a gift card to the container store, which is like an organized person's dream come true, or an aspiring organized person's dream come true, or a free coaching session with me, which is normally $250.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: So come on, join us.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about clutter.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: In terms of digital clutter, if I think about what can really stress me out, it is an inbox that is too full.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: This is one thing that I do not miss at all from my corporate job, when I would be gone sometimes for one day, if I took a vacation day or something, and come back to like 150 emails.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's just the worst.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Or maybe the home screen on your phone has too much stuff on it, or you have millions of pictures and a variety of places that you've never like put into an album, or decided which ones to keep or done.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: Anything with Digital clutter can weigh on our brain just as much as physical clutter can.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: So the challenge for today is for you to choose one clutter digital space in your life and work on it for just two minutes.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: That's all you have to do.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: So what you could do is I'm going to give you some examples.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: You could open your inbox and subscribe from the emails that you never read.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: There are plenty of emails that come into my inbox and, yes, I usually go back and delete all of them but there are plenty that I just never open someplace I've subscribed to because I wanted, like, the original 10% discount or something, and then I just forget to unsubscribe.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: I did this.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: I set a timer for two minutes and I unsubscribed from eight emails in that two minutes time.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: You're like eight emails.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: That's not that much, but think about that.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Some of these places send out emails three, four, five times a week.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: I am reducing the number of clutter that will even be coming in again.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: You could also look at your phone and find out what apps you don't use.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: If you have an iPhone, there is a setting where you can do that.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Look that up.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: You can go in and see the last time that you've used all of the apps.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: If there are some that are way at the bottom of that list, just delete them.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: I really a couple years ago when the Home Edit if you don't know the Home Edit, it's this team of organizers and they love to organize things in rainbow color they have a show on Netflix, they have books, they have a cool Instagram, etc.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: But when that was like the new cool thing.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: One of my friends mentioned that she was organizing her phone home screen by color and that's exactly what I did.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: So when I unlock my phone, I see all the apps that are my top priority and they're in rainbow color and it makes me happy every time.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: So if you don't have that experience with your home screen on your phone, make today the day to change that.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Delete the crap you don't use.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Reorganize them in a pretty way.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: You could even go to the photos on your phone and spend two minutes deleting duplicates or just deleting all the ones that are like random screenshots that you saved to text to somebody and you don't need them anymore.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: You could look at your computer, your work or your home computer on the very I guess it's not really called a home screen.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that screen is called, but you know, when you log in, before you open anything, is that cluttered.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Lots of times I'll put files on there if I'm going to attach them to an email.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: Can you just go through and like move all those to deleted or just move them to?
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll just put a folder on there that's called stuff and I just put them all in there so I don't have to see all of that visual clutter.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: All you need to do is spend two minutes on those, see how far you get, see how that makes you feel, and then respond back to me via email.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: You've got to get on my email list to do that and tell me what thing you decluttered and you'll be entered to win.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, you got this.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: And also think about if you did this.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: You spent literally two minutes or maybe even five minutes.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: If you wanted to get really crazy every day doing this, imagine how quickly you could get through unsubscribing to all of the emails you don't want to have anymore.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: All right, have a great day.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be back tomorrow for day five.